![]() ![]() These two are the main characters – the warrior and the diplomat-magician-spy – and they are joined by robots, a fixer, a doctor-magician, and occasionally others when needed (including a single human). I will admit that it took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that the description of Iari, with her tusks, was rather like that of the classic orc while Gaer, with his spines and half-raptor, half-reptile biology, was rather like a dragon. ![]() Or, as I discovered when I read the acknowledgements, Dungeons & Dragons: there, Eason recognizes that the Nightwatch books owe a huge debt to a game she played pre-COVID. Instead, this feels like an old-school military SF with a Star Trek-like cast of aliens. It’s not aiming to be a serious treatise on the problems of warfare or interspecies relations. Secondly: this is not a book to take too seriously. You can, however, read it without reading Eason’s first in this universe. This second book in the series opens just months after the events in the first, and while there is a little backstory as a reminder of the stakes, it’s definitely not enough to make this stand alone. ![]() ![]() Cover by Tim Green.įirst things first: you definitely don’t want to read this without reading the first in the series, Nightwatch on the Hinterlands (2021). ![]()
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